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Reddit banned me for developing Geddit


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This is the story of how I got a permanent ban from Reddit for developing a non-commercial open-source client called Geddit. Upon hearing the news, being an ambitious and naive developer in my third year at university, I decided to inspect the Reddit API to see what I could do. And then, I came across capacitor and ionic framework, which were libraries that allowed you to develop native mobile apps in HTML, CSS and Javascript.

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